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THE SCRANTON TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1985' '21 Sequel to 'Poltergeist' To Be $6 Million More By BOB THOMAS Associated Press Writer CULVER CITY, Calif. "Polterge-ist-JI: The Other Side," a seaucl to the 1982 movie about a family whose lives are disrupted by unpleasant forces, cost $6.2 million more to make than the-original even though it used the same cast and production values. The original "Poltergeist, co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg, was made for $12 million. The sequel has been produced for $18 2 million. "Steven was able to get a good deal for special effects from LM.

(Electric Light and Magic. George Lucas' wonder factory) which was in an idle period at the time." said executive producer Freddie Fields in explaining the leap in costs "Inflation plays a big factor, the cost of materials as well as three union pay raises; also the additional cost of the cast." Michael Grais and Mark Victor, who co-wrote the original with Spielberg and are producing the sequel, took a calculated risk and wrote the new script for the same cast They hoped it would win them over It did However, the actors and their agents wanted more money to repeat their roles JoBeth Williams and Craig Nelson star as the parents and Heather O'Rourke and Oliver Robins play their children "It was worth what we had to pay them," Fields said in an interview They're a very close-knit group, they really act like a family That's something that isn't easy to achieve with actors" Spielberg is not artistically involved in "Poltergeist II." although the prolific filmmaker retains a financial in Cannonball Run' Is Movie for Reynolds Fans Labor Day Hits Earnings; 'Back to Future' Tops List WASHINGTON "The Cannonball Run" iCh 22 at 9i may be one of your favorite flicks If you're a Burt Reynolds fan if you're a car-racing fan If you like to look at Farrah Fawcett. I can't think of another reason to watch this strained comedy with a lot of adults having a second childhood The excuse is an ad-hoc cross-country race in which evading the cops is the No 1 challenge Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. play a pair who disguise themselves as priests and drive a red Ferrari fast and with impunity and impiety Reynolds' character not only disguises himself as an ambulance driver but he also disguises his swift van as an ambulance Guess who's the patient! Right' It's Farrah iff another role she's having trouble living down 1 think it's more fun watching celebrities as themselves than watching them in a silly movie. "The Barbara Walters Special" (Ch.

16 at 9i. marks 9:00 PM, CH. 16 BARBARA WALTERS with Barbra Streisand Princess Caroline and Priscilla Presley its 10th anniversary with an expanded format and interviews with three women the world never tires of knowing more about. Miss Walters goes to Monaco to interview the exquisite Princess Caroline While she's there, she also talks briefly to her sister. Princess Stephanie, and to their father.

Prince Rainier. Another interview is with Priscilla Presley, the beautiful ex-wife of Elvis. It's nicely timed to coincide with the release-of her tell-all autobio. Also interviewed: Barbra Streisand. Unexpectedly revealing: film clips of the two Barbs from the interview Miss Walters did with Miss Streisand in 1976.

If anything. both look more glamorous now. UH-OH! "Webster" is truly a (Channels 44. 46 13 at CABLE CHANNELS "Today cohost Jane Pauley is a speaker at the Radio-Television News Directors Association convention in Nashville (C-SPAN at 6). Sports Alert: The San Francisco Giants play the Atlanta Braves (WTBS at In one of Richard Burton's last appearances, he hosts The United Nations Gala atU!) to aid African refugees.

"Splash (Showtime at 8) A magical romance between a luscious mermaid (Daryl Hannah) and asweet young man (Tom Hanks) who would follow her to the depths of the sea (who wouldn't'). Emerging from the waters, she astounds a tour group at the Statue of Liberty, learns about consumerism and life at Bloomingdales. "All the President's Men" (The Movie Channel at 8) This is a tense, exciting thriller depicting the Watergate investigation by reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Eddie Murphy hosts the MTV Video Music Awards (MTV from 9 to midnight i. On "Good Sex!" (Lifetime at 10).

Dr. Ruth Westheimer gives advice on premarital jitters." LATE NIGHT MOVIES 11:30, (2, 12 22 1 "Phantom Of The Opera, 13 1 "Queen Christina," 44 The Cat Creature," (PRISM) "Bolero;" 12:30, (HBO) "Never Say Never Again; 12 45, (44 1 "My Love Came Back;" 1:10, (PRISM) "My Tutor;" 2, (5) "The More The Merrier," (7) The Green Slime," (9) "Wake Me When The War Is Over," 44 1 The Man Who Talked Too Much; 2:15, (2) "Never Give An Inch; 2:50, (HBO) Until September," (PRISM) Teachers; 3. (CBN) "Destination Inner Space;" 3:30, (9) "My Little Chicadee," (29) Who Was That Lady; 4:30, (HBO) Nightmares, (CBN) "Journey To The Center Of Time. United feature Syndicate Inc. JUDV flRNDCR Tune in Tonight prime time program for kids.

Most of the episodes are lightly humorous lessons. And most of the time, the boy's adopted parents behave like kids. too. But not always. Be sure to have the little ones watch Webster" (Ch.

16 at 8 1 tonight, especially, because it is a repeat of the instructive episode on how children should deal with child molestation. Its title: "The Uh-Oh Feeling Webster's little girl friend is molested by their teacher, but is afraid to let anyone know about it except him. Webster thinks he should keep it quiet, too, but is finally persuaded to tell Katherine and George. The program end with a counselor giving pointers to a class on the differences between touching and molesting SERIES PICKS On "Knight Rider" (Ch 28 at 8, repeat), Michael and K1TT battle a professional hit man and his KITT-like hit car Two killers are on Jackson's trail, but, fortunately, he's got a lot of female helpers on "I Had Three Wives" iCh 22 at 8 1 On "Mr. Belvedere" iCh 16 at 8 30i.

Kevin goes to jail for spraying a white mink with' red paint Guests on "The Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson" i Ch 28 at 9): Ray Charles, Chaka Khan and Tears for Fears On Benson" (Ch: 16 at 10:30. repeati, Benson vetoes one of the governor's bills Oh "Miami Vice" (Ch. 28 at 10. repeati. Sonny's love affair with an artist impedes the speed with which he and Tubbs can act to apprehend three rampaging, murderous teenagers.

PBS PICKS John Templeton, president of the Templeton Group of Mutual Funds is guest on "Wall Street Week" terest. "We woi have had to wait two years for his participation because he's so busy with, other projects," said Fields. The first grossed $80 million worldwide, which would be reason enough for a sequel. However. Fields had other reasons for pursuing the project "We have a strong script, one that goes beyond the first film to show you where the poltergeist' came from.

In other words, you'll see the genesis of the evil force," he said. "There was a big ancilliary audience for 'Poltergeist people loving it qp television and home video whereas they wouldn't go see it in theaters. They realized that it was not Friday the but rather an occult mystery about the unknown, with even a touch of spirituality I believe they will be eager to sec the second film." Freddie Fields is in the curious position of being an independent producer at the studio. MGM. where he was once president and chief operating officer Earlier in his career he was a superagent.

co-founding Creative Management Associates and guiding. the careers of Robert Redl'ord, Paul Newman. Barbra Streisand. Woody Allen, A1 Pacino. Steve McQueen and others After selling the agency, he produced "Looking for Mr Goodbar." "Victory," "American "Lipstick" and other films befoie becoming production chief at MGM.

student with a hair growth problem in "Teen Wolf also has helped that film retain sedond place and earn $3.1 million over the weekend Following are the weekends other top movies and their gross in millions: 3 "Pee Wee Big Adventure," $2 2. 4 Compromising Positions," $2.1. 5. "Volunteers." $1 6 6 "American Ninja. $1 5.

7 "Year of The Dragon," $15. 8. "Cocoon, $13 9. "Silverado." $12 10. "Ghostbusters," $1.1.

live performance at Lowell University, and his Lincoln Center debut in 1975. Born in New York, he is a graduate of the Julliard School of Music where he was a student of Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus As a CBS stand-in at camera rehearsals, he was discovered by the violinist David Oistrakh, who encouraged Sol Hurok to manage his career, and by Sviatoslav Richter who became his coach. When not on tour, he teaches at the Mannes School of Music in New York. The Scripps-Howard television stations currently air his "Walrus Tales" music minutes designed to educate children. In the Saturday program, deGaetano will perform the Italian Concerto and the second English Suite by S.

Bach; the Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 (The Tempest) and Sonata Pathetique, Op. 13 by Beethoven. HOLLYWOOD (APi A post-Labor Day lull hit movie theaters last weekend.

but "Back to the -Future" managed to stay atop the list of moneymakers, pulling in $5 2 million, studios reported recently. As teen-agers prepared to return to school and film production companies readied to release their more adult-oriented fare, attendance at theaters dropped and the gross for the weekend's most popular film fell by $4 million But "Back to the Future" showed it still isn't finished earning money for Steven Spielberg Ambhn Productions and Universal Studios. The Robert Zemeckis film, which stars Michael J. Fox, has a total gross of $138 million, short of the $146 million earned by the early summer favorite "Rambo: First Blood Part II." Fox's starring role as high school JIM HCNNIGRN Local Radio-TV DAU Aims To Improve Its Ratings Its born a long time since WDAU-TV, Channel 22. has been anywhere except in last place in the local TV ratings, but don't be suprised if that doesn't change in the very near future The people at 22 are working more aggressively than ever these days to turn the station around, and the addition of Gary Essex as news eo-anchor with Debbie Dunleavy was only the beginning.

Essex begins his tour of duty ith WDAU next Monday. Judging from his popularity during a five-year stint in the anchor spot at WNEP. lie'll bring some viewers along with him. (By the way. it's inaccurate to say that Essex "made Channel 16 Number 1" during Ins tenure there Although it's true that Essex helped to build 16's advantage over WBRE and WDAU.

Ed Martell was the anchor when WNEP first became the top-rated news program in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1976. Essex joined the station a couple of months later, and 16 news ratings continued to climb steadily while he held the anchor spot I Those who tune in to WDAUs news show next week to see Essex also will see a leaner, brighter set; more graphics; more "in-the-field reports by 22 news crews; cleaner and more colorful weather maps and a better overall picture quality than they'll probably remember That's the result of an ongoing effort by station officials to improve both the physical appearance and the content of WDAU local news programs Station officials claim they'll match 22's evening news shows against anybody's for content and substance. And there are plans to set up a Wilkes-Barre news bureau within the next few weeks and possibly others in Stroudsburg and Williamsport in the not-too-distant future. More 'set changes are in the works, too, including a couple of major ones within the next four to six weeks, according to promotions director David Campbell WDAU also plans to add a new antenna to its transmitter, a move designed to strengthen lfs signal to areas where it traditionally1 has been weak And, the station is -drawing up plans to actually move its transmitter from its current site on West Mountain in Scranton to Mountain-top. where WBRE.

WNEP and WV1A have their towers. That move, at an estimated cost of $2 million, probably will not come until 1986. But when it happens it will finally solve a transmission problem that has kept WDAU at a disadvantage throughout its history. 4 WDAU also is adding more local news spots to its regular program schedule. Beginning this month, 22 will air a five-minute "news break" weekday mornings at 6:55 a m.

The early morning n.ews show will give a quick rundown of overnight news stories, plus weather advisories and road-condition reports as viewers get ready for work. The station already has similar five-minute spots at 7:25 and 8:25 am. inside the CBS Morning News. WDAU also will re-broadcast its 11 news show in its entirety at sign-off each day. at 1:30 or 2 a m.

Elsewhere. WDAU has computerized much of its operation; has developed a production capacity that allows it to produce commercials for advertisers; is working on a creative services department that will write, produce and direct commercials. public affairs shows and local features; Jias bolstered its. local sales staff and according to station officials has quadrupled its sales volume. In fact, some at 22 will tell you the operation is growing at such a.

rate that it may not be long before WDAU moves out of its leased quarters on Wyoming Avenue and into new, larger facilities. That's probably down the road a bit. But what it reflects is an attitude that this is a station that's on the move. WDAU hasn't had that in a long time Abortion Show Set A PBS documentary on the abortion issue will be aired in its entirety over two nights on WVIA-TV, Channel 44. according to station officials.

Fourteen PBS stations elsewhere across the country have refused to air the three-hour program because they consider the topic to be too controversial But WYT.A will be among the more than 266 Public Broadcasting Systems that will air the show and in fact the local station will follow it up with a one-hour panel discussion featuring local pro-choice and pro-life leaders. Although "The Abortion Battle" was produced as a three-hour documentary, WVIA plans to show it over two evenings. Wednesday and Thursday, beginning at 9. Immediately following the national program. WVIA will present a one-hour locafl fotlowup.

moderated by Jerry Heller. WARM Radio news director. Panelists will be the Rev. Leslie Evans and the Rev. Marvin Marsh, pro-choice, and Betty Cafj frey and Dr.

William Smedley, deGaetano Piano Recital Set by Young Musicians WNEP Adds Some New Shows As ABC Overhauls Prime Time The Young Musicians Society will present American pianist Robert de-Gaetano in recital Saturday at 8 m. at the Anne Liva Music Studios, 225 N. Washington Ave. Michael Popick. society president, said the recital will kick off the society's 1985-86 series.

deGaetano's 1985 debut in London evoked rave responses from critics and audignees. In 1971, he made his orchestral debut with the San Antonio Symphony and subsequently toured 49 states and Europe. Other orchestral engagements include the Boston Pops. Atlanta, Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and San Diego philharmonics; also the Netherlands and Greece. Among his early solo appearances were the American Ballet Theater, National Public Radio, a recording of a iur starring Robert Urich, at 10.

"MacGyver, a new show that even network people dont seem to be very excited about, wraps up ABCs fall premiere lineup. It airs Sunday nights at 8, between Ripleys Believe It or Not" and the ABC Sunday Night Movie. Locally, WNEP's Hale has penciled in only a few new programs in off-prime hours. Saturday late-night, for instance, WNEP plans to offer that old favorite, Gunsmoke, from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a m.

Hale says he bought the series of one-hour, color shows starring James Arness after another western, How the West Was Won, proved to be popular in the same spot last year. Sunday afternoons will have a mysterious flavor beginning Oct. 13, when WNEP will begin airing a mystery movie doubleheader. Hale said the station has bought the Charlie Chan" series of mystery movies, and also the original series Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone. A Charlie Chan-Sherlock Holmes double-feature each Sunday will give viewers an alternative to NFL football, Hale said.

WNEP also plans to air three to five Penn State football games this year on Saturday afternoons, plus a couple of Pitt Panther games and as many as three local high school football contests. Weekday mornings recently had the comedy series, "Green Acres added at 10 a m. Thats followed by Petticoat Junction" at 10:30, and later this month Threes a Crowd" will join the lineup at 11 a m. Soap operas will continue to Till the afternoon schedule, and WNEP will stick with the popular Quincy" at 4 m. and Rockford Files" at 5, leading into the early local news.

Hale says WNEP will continue four news broadcasts each day, at 6:30 am, noon, and 6 and 11 m. And the station also plans to do more local features like In Your Neighborhood, with Paul Oles reporting on local events; Childwatch, with Karen Harch alerting viewers to missing children. and "Just for Kids. with Frank Andrews doing a five-minute news feature for children during the "Hatchy-Milatchv Show. He says WNEP also has some new ideas for its "Pennsylvania Outdoor Life" program, and will be putting more local segments into its "PM Magazine show.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of stories outlining the fall program schedules of Northeastern Pennsylvania's four commercial television stations. By JIM IIENNIGAN Times Television Writer ABC fell to third place last' year in the network rating wars, slightly behind NBC and far behind front-running CBS. So it's not very suprising that ABC has some wholesale changes in the works in prime time as TV's new season begins. ABC's local affiliate, WNEP-TV. doesn t'Tiave the network's problems with poor ratings: In fact, Channel 16 has been at the top of the ratings heap locally for years.

Nonetheless, WNEP vice president Elden Hale says a handful of new programs will be placed into Channel 16 schedule in ofl-prime slots, including a couple of new daytime comedies, a late-night weekend western series and a new "Mystery Movie" series on Sunday afternoons. At the network level, ABC is adding 74 hours of new prime time programming. the most of any of the three networks (CBS is adding five hours and NBC four). ABC's new shows are comedies, police dramas and adventures, all programs that would be likely to attract the kind of young audience that made the network successful in the 70s. Of course is back as ABC's one guaranteed hit; in fact, network officials are touting this season's episodes as the juiciest ever.

The inevitable spin-off will come a bit later in the season, in the form of "Dynasty II: The Colbys of California. ABC plans to start off the Colbys on "Dynasty" and give them their own program on Thursday evenings, probably starting in November Generally. ABC is looking to Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays as their key nights in prime time: On Tuesdays. ABC is challenging NBC's "The A-Team" with a pair of situation comedies, "Who's the Boss?" at 8, and "Growing Pains." a new program with former talk show host Alan Thicke playing a father who is ROBERT URICH Of "Spenser: For Hire" also a psychiatrist, at 8:30.

"Moonlighting will follow at 9 and Our Family Honor at 10. On Thursdays. ABC is hoping that "Dynasty II: The Colbys" will anchor a three-hour block that starts with "The Fall Guv" St 8 and concludes with 20 20" at 10. And on Saturdays, the network's hopes are pinned to Robert Wagner's new dramatic series, "Lime Street." That's the show that was to have co-starred 13-year-old Samantha Smith, who became famous when she visited the Soviet Union in 1983 and who was killed in a plane crash last month. Samantha was to have played one of two daughters of a jet-setting insurance investigator Wagner i.

Four episodes of the show already had been filmed when Samantha was killed. "Lime Street" will anchor a Saturday night lineup that starts off with "Hollywood Beat" at 8 and goes to "Love Boat" at 10. On Wednesdays. ABC will introduce The Insiders," an adventure program about a free-lance reporter and his sidekick, an ex-con turned entrepreneur. "The will air at 8.

with "Dynasty" and "Hotel" to follow Mondays will offer "Hardcastle McCormick" leading in to "Monday Night Fridays will feature a series of comedies. "Webster." "Mr Belvedere," "Diffrent Strokes" and "Benson," followed by "Spenser: For Hire," a new one-hour detective show KEYSER UNI KEYSERIAVEJ 91.0382 Shop Oatty lO a.mJto SJOCFrfcllO rTN S30.